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Fundamentals of Project Management

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Satpathy, Senior Vice President IT and CIO Axis Bank. “It also integrates with the user
desktop logins.”
Project Server 2010 provides innovative capabilities across the entire lifecycle to help
effectively initiate, select, plan, schedule, and monitor the projects for timelines and budget.
It unifies project and portfolio management to help prioritize investments, align resources,
and execute projects efficiently and effectively. What’s more, it brings together the business
collaboration platform services of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with structured
execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions.

Axis Bank started the EPM deployment in October 2010. The implementation was completed
smoothly in approximately one year. Currently, the solution is available to about 250
employees of the IT department.
Axis Bank uses Project Server 2010 to incorporate the database of potential projects and to
prioritize them. The solution is used to manage the stages and functions of all its projects
and other activities related to those projects. As Project Server 2010 is built on SharePoint
Server 2010, the bank has the collaborative part of its solution.

A centralized and consolidated view of project schedules, scope, and resource information
helps executives to better evaluate and prioritize activities.
Project Managers are using Project Professional 2010 to create projects and delegate work
items to the execution team members. Employees access it on the web to modify and
update the status of different activities resulting in an efficient and seamless collaborative
environment.
The EPM solution provides a powerful reporting infrastructure coupled with flexible
business intelligence tools to help ensure visibility across project portfolios. Project Server
2010 uses the Microsoft business intelligence platform, including Excel Services,
PerformancePoint Services, SQL Reporting Services, and more, all of which provide a
comprehensive solution that can grow with Axis Bank’s reporting needs.

The solution provides non-technical resources with familiar tools to easily create reports
and configure powerful audience-based dashboards. Technical resources or power users
can create complex views using the solution’s more sophisticated capabilities.

“Project Server 2010 enhances reporting and project execution,” says Ajay Lande, Deputy
Vice President – IT Project Management Organization (PMO), Axis Bank. “We now have a
central repository of project data that helps us to monitor and review the progress of our
projects as part of the PMO function.”

The Excel reporting services enables easy and flexible data extraction from the tool says
Sameer Khan, Assistant Vice President - IT PMO. “It makes tracking and reporting of the
project portfolio easy and flexible.

Project Server 2010 workflow capabilities help Axis Bank define the right governance
processes to effectively control the Project lifecycle. The solution also empowers the mobile
workforce by bringing the power of Microsoft Project Professional 2010 to the browser
with web based project scheduling.

Benefits
Since it began using the solution, Axis Bank has better visibility and control over all
projects and resources. Project Server is helping the bank to centralize project information,
and enhance capacity and resource management. Vidya Jayaram, Vice President IT and
head PMO, Axis Bank explains, “The EPM solution provides us with powerful reporting
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